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some of them have exciting pre-clinical data. they're in early clinical trials, and they may sort of change this gameboard a lot for us. then we... get into the realm of experimental treatments, drugs like herceptin, which... attack something that's different about a cancer cell, and make that cell either stop growing, or make it more sensitive to treatment with the other modalities. in 1986, the scientific community learned that a gene involved in regulating cell growth had been discovered -- her2/neu. about the same time, dr. dennis slamon and his team of researchers were extraing dna from discarded cancer tissue, looking for genetic alterations that might be linked to the disease. these are the pieces of the breast tumors. dr. slamon: about 30% of patients who had breast cancer had this particular gene altered, and we recognized that it wasn't something inherited, but it was something that was occurring during the life of the individuals. in a normal cell, there are two copies of the her2/neu gene. they control the production
some of them have exciting pre-clinical data. they're in early clinical trials, and they may sort of change this gameboard a lot for us. then we... get into the realm of experimental treatments, drugs like herceptin, which... attack something that's different about a cancer cell, and make that cell either stop growing, or make it more sensitive to treatment with the other modalities. in 1986, the scientific community learned that a gene involved in regulating cell growth had been discovered --...
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energy department data shows u.s. imports of crude had fallen 11% this year and the country is on track to produce the most oil since 1991. the syrian military continues to launch attacks on the border town, sending hundreds of civilians fleeing to neighboring turkey. the new bombings come days after more than 11,000 syrian civilians were forced out during strikes last week, one of the largest refugee flights of this year in conflict to date. speaking in geneva, the head of disaster in crisis management at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies warned turkey needs major aid to handle the growing number of syrian refugees. >> we have seen a doubling of the camp population since july 2012, and i think as you have seen over the last few days, there has been an increase in the number of syrians moving into turkey. they now recognize the situation is becoming prolonged. the initial thoughts the population might be displaced for shorter amount of time are now being reassessed and the government
energy department data shows u.s. imports of crude had fallen 11% this year and the country is on track to produce the most oil since 1991. the syrian military continues to launch attacks on the border town, sending hundreds of civilians fleeing to neighboring turkey. the new bombings come days after more than 11,000 syrian civilians were forced out during strikes last week, one of the largest refugee flights of this year in conflict to date. speaking in geneva, the head of disaster in crisis...
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new data from the internet search firm google shows online, surveillance is increasing with the u.s. far surpassing the rest of the world in requests for affirmation about users. more than a third of the nearly 21,000 requests for user data google received in the first half of 2012 came from the united states. in total during the six months, the u.s. submitted nearly 8000 requests that applied to more than 16,000 users or accounts. google complied at least partly with 90% of those requests. both requests for user information and requests by countries to remove online content have increased since 2009 when google began its reports. in a blog post about reports thursday, google wrote -- and those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin the show in europe, where today, millions of workers have joined a general strike to protest spending cuts and tax hikes they say have deepened the region's econom
new data from the internet search firm google shows online, surveillance is increasing with the u.s. far surpassing the rest of the world in requests for affirmation about users. more than a third of the nearly 21,000 requests for user data google received in the first half of 2012 came from the united states. in total during the six months, the u.s. submitted nearly 8000 requests that applied to more than 16,000 users or accounts. google complied at least partly with 90% of those requests....
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now there's pretty convincing data from over 20 epidemiologic studies in large populations that mildly increased homocysteine does increase your risk for heart attack and stroke. the exciting thing is that homocysteine is potentially usually treatable. taking extra doses of the vitamins that are involved in the metabolism of homocysteine-- b12, b6, and especially folic acid-- can lower homocysteine levels with extra intake. and so a number of clinical trials have now been organized to see if taking extra vitamins and lowering serum homocysteine does result in actually preventing stroke and heart attack. if so, it will be another important addition to our stroke prevention practices. it was a summer of promise for karen christiansen and ken jones. after ten years of marriage, they were expecting their first child. ken was teaching when he got the call... ken jones: it was a person from the y, and when they first started talking about karen, it was very strange because i thought it was going to have something to do with the pregnancy, and then when they said it was a stroke, it took a fe
now there's pretty convincing data from over 20 epidemiologic studies in large populations that mildly increased homocysteine does increase your risk for heart attack and stroke. the exciting thing is that homocysteine is potentially usually treatable. taking extra doses of the vitamins that are involved in the metabolism of homocysteine-- b12, b6, and especially folic acid-- can lower homocysteine levels with extra intake. and so a number of clinical trials have now been organized to see if...
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i look at the data and it turns out since this law went into effect, police are still making arrests at 810 to one right over tickets. so most of the people getting caught with low level possession are still getting arrested if they're getting anything at all. but i mean by that, a lot of police officers telling me the ticketing process is just a pain in the but. in some cases, they're deciding just to let people go, but in other cases there saying, i'm going to go ahead and take this person to the station and address them. it seems to break down along racial lines. almost eight of 10 people arrested are african-american. we will know that is not hard usage rates break down. essentially, we have we call grass gap continuing in this law that gives officers the option of not making an arrest is it really being used. it does not appear to be a solution to the fundamental problems. >> do you see this happening around the country? >> there is like 90 cities just in illinois alone that have defied state law, defied federal law and issued their own the oil-excuse me, passed their own laws a
i look at the data and it turns out since this law went into effect, police are still making arrests at 810 to one right over tickets. so most of the people getting caught with low level possession are still getting arrested if they're getting anything at all. but i mean by that, a lot of police officers telling me the ticketing process is just a pain in the but. in some cases, they're deciding just to let people go, but in other cases there saying, i'm going to go ahead and take this person to...
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munich re is a company that in one sense that compiles data in a bloodless, profit oriented way in order to figure out what the costs are going to be related to storm hazards among other disasters. this report was put out on october 17, before the storm, before we had any sense it was going to be as extreme as it was. it reported that basically extreme weather has gotten more frequent, more intense, particularly as it happens in north america, and the insurance company is saying that they are now beyond the debate over whether climate change is real. they have accepted that, and they are calling on industry to deal with it as a statistical reality. i thought that was a nice accompaniment to the scientific research because the munich re guys are not doing basic climate research, but simply serving the money they pay out over time and saying, we have been paying out more billions in recent decades then we had anticipated and see a trend and we can see no explanation other anan the relationship to global warming. >> in fact, even the pentagon, right? for years, even under the bush @administ
munich re is a company that in one sense that compiles data in a bloodless, profit oriented way in order to figure out what the costs are going to be related to storm hazards among other disasters. this report was put out on october 17, before the storm, before we had any sense it was going to be as extreme as it was. it reported that basically extreme weather has gotten more frequent, more intense, particularly as it happens in north america, and the insurance company is saying that they are...
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>> we know from the polling data that immigration is important and i think mitt romney is showing he is a tremendous amount of respect for hispanic voters across the country. there are a record number of participating in elected officials at the convention. had a before had they haone large number of representatives participating in the convention, so i think that is something to look for it to. we also know the most important topic on everyone's mind is the economy. hispanic unemployment is up 2 to 3 points higher than the general population. that is unacceptable. hispanics are hard hit by obama's. >> that was mario lopez, president of the hispanic leadership. your response? >> what they are going to have this time around is, as a result of the latino vote, you're going have many more hispanic representatives. republican and democrat. we have three latino senators in the u.s. senate in the country with the victory of ortiz, a republican t partyer in taxes, and marco rubio, the republican in florida and bob menendez, democrat in new jersey. all three are keeping american. and all thr
>> we know from the polling data that immigration is important and i think mitt romney is showing he is a tremendous amount of respect for hispanic voters across the country. there are a record number of participating in elected officials at the convention. had a before had they haone large number of representatives participating in the convention, so i think that is something to look for it to. we also know the most important topic on everyone's mind is the economy. hispanic unemployment...
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is the author of an ongoing series of reports called, "campaign 2012: revealing dark money and big data." her latest piece is called, "dark money group's donors revealed." she recently collaborated with pbs frontline on a special, "big sky, big money: a tale of money, power and political intrigue in the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate: montana." kim barker, welcome back to >> where do you want me to start? >> explain what this group is, how the judge ruled, and what are the implications for this country? >> western tradition partnershi@ is one of the social welfare nonprofits that are supposed to have social welfare or helping the community at large as the primary purpose. they are allowed to do some politics, but it is not supposed to be what they're doing primarily. there were very involved in 2008 in the state elections in montana. after that, montana investigators began to investigate and found about two years ago, this was a political committee and its donors should be public. a lawsuit in sued, as it often does with this group. for the last two years, it has been m
is the author of an ongoing series of reports called, "campaign 2012: revealing dark money and big data." her latest piece is called, "dark money group's donors revealed." she recently collaborated with pbs frontline on a special, "big sky, big money: a tale of money, power and political intrigue in the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate: montana." kim barker, welcome back to >> where do you want me to start? >> explain what this group is,...
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recent data support this orbital explanation for ice ages. drill cores from deep-sea sediments contain fossils of microscopic plants that were sensitive to ocean temperatures, indicators of past ice ages and the warm times in between. using these fossils, scientists have been able to chart the temperature changes in the world's oceans going back nearly a half million years. scientists have also shown that these changes can be correlated to variations in the distance between earth and sun, which occur with regularity. but these cyclic changes in earth-sun geometry have been going on for the entire history of earth, and glacial epochs are uncommon events. perhaps the positions of the continents themselves play a role in triggering ice ages. throughout earth's history, plate tectonics have shifted continents, changed their shapes, and altered the pattern of ocean currents around them. all of these are critical factors in regulating earth's climate. and if land masses are near the poles, the can support ice sheets that could not grow otherwise. s
recent data support this orbital explanation for ice ages. drill cores from deep-sea sediments contain fossils of microscopic plants that were sensitive to ocean temperatures, indicators of past ice ages and the warm times in between. using these fossils, scientists have been able to chart the temperature changes in the world's oceans going back nearly a half million years. scientists have also shown that these changes can be correlated to variations in the distance between earth and sun, which...
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drive human behavior and then looking at example networks to see whether our theories are backed up by data from the real networks. >> all right. well, let's see if joe has a good understanding of what a social network looks like. >> great. >> julia, julia wells. i haven't seen you since... >> joe, what brings you here? >> well, honestly, i'm crashing the party to meet mr. price. joe smith. >> hello. >> obviously, you know maggie. everyone, this is maggie. >> hi, nice to meet you. >> maggie says you might know somebody. >> well, i know several people. sounds like you're here to do some networking. >> absolutely. let me show you something. >> looks like joe is on his way, taking advantage of networking opportunities to connect to price. it appears that the connected component he's joined is not yet part of the giant component that surrounds price. but knowing joe, they won't stay disconnected for long. >> i think i might be able to reach rapid phase transition fairly quickly. >> clever. how did you figure that out? >> i'm a graduate student -- mathematics, network theory. so, harry, who do y
drive human behavior and then looking at example networks to see whether our theories are backed up by data from the real networks. >> all right. well, let's see if joe has a good understanding of what a social network looks like. >> great. >> julia, julia wells. i haven't seen you since... >> joe, what brings you here? >> well, honestly, i'm crashing the party to meet mr. price. joe smith. >> hello. >> obviously, you know maggie. everyone, this is...
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from these data, the substructure is mapped and computer models created to predict how groundwater flows through the basin. this information is extremely important because it helps water district personnel plan how to effectively contain groundwater pollutants. we don't wait for regulatory agencies such as the state or the epa to come to us and tell us we've got a problem. it's too late then. we're looking at managing our own groundwater basin as though we had to drink the water, and we do. life demands water, and groundwater is an immensely important natural resource. groundwater is recharged by the infiltration of rain and snow and surface water into the fractures and pores in rocks. rocks that are both highly porous and permeable make the best-quality aquifers and will contain the most abundant groundwater supplies. aquifers are vital to the water supplies of both cities and farms, but many are threatened by problems that need to be addressed now if these aquifers are to be used by future generations. they are in danger of being depleted not only by a rapidly rising demand for water,
from these data, the substructure is mapped and computer models created to predict how groundwater flows through the basin. this information is extremely important because it helps water district personnel plan how to effectively contain groundwater pollutants. we don't wait for regulatory agencies such as the state or the epa to come to us and tell us we've got a problem. it's too late then. we're looking at managing our own groundwater basin as though we had to drink the water, and we do....
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some of them have exciting pre-clinical data. they're in early clinical trials, and they may sort of change this gameboard a lot for us. then we... get into the realm of experimental treatments, drugs like herceptin, which... attack something that's different about a cancer cell, and make that cell either stop growing, or make it more sensitive to treatment with the other modalities. in 1986, the scientific community learned that a gene involved in regulating cell growth had been discovered -- her2/neu. about the same time, dr. dennis slamon and his team of researchers were extracting dna from discarded cancer tissue, looking for genetic alterations that might be linked to the disease. these are the pieces of the breast tumors. dr. slamon: about 30% of patients who had breast cancer had this particular gene altered, and we recognized that it wasn't something inherited, but it was something that was occurring during the life of the individuals. in a normal cell, they control the production of protein found on a cell's surface that
some of them have exciting pre-clinical data. they're in early clinical trials, and they may sort of change this gameboard a lot for us. then we... get into the realm of experimental treatments, drugs like herceptin, which... attack something that's different about a cancer cell, and make that cell either stop growing, or make it more sensitive to treatment with the other modalities. in 1986, the scientific community learned that a gene involved in regulating cell growth had been discovered --...